7 super snaps of harvest 2022 from our photo gallery

With harvest starting early in many parts, photos are already flooding in for FW‘s harvest ‘”front cover: photo competition.

Here are a selection of ones that have caught our eye so far … 

See also: Harvest 2022 – one of the earliest starts for wheat cutting

Tractor and trailer in field

© Jack Sugg

“Our John Deere 6250R waiting for the combine to be full,” says Jack Sugg, who captured the moment in Cambridgeshire on the edge of The Fens just after the heatwave.

Combine in barley field

© Charlotte Willn

Charlotte Willn took this one of the barley harvest on the farm her father manages at Snowshill Hill, Gloucestershire.

Tractor with worker

© Sue Starkings

Blowing the dust, straw and chaff from the combine after a day’s work is a crucial job in this year’s hot weather, says Sue Starkings, from South Walsham, Norfolk.

Rainbow over field

© Polly Fenwick

This shows a “welcome reprieve from the extreme heat” in East Anglia during harvest in late July, according to Polly Fenwick, who captured this image.

Red deer in field with combine

© Oliver Tyrell

Oliver Tyrrell caught the moment a small herd of red deer passed through the field as Skyfall winter wheat was cut on the Euston Estate in Suffolk.

Neil Worby and grandson in field with harvest machinery

© Neil Worby

“After numerous repeats of Tractor Ted, my grandson, Austen, finally got to see harvest for real in Wortham, Suffolk,” says Neil Worby. Neil titled the image “Austen’s first harvest”.

Combine in winter barley field

© Anthony Kinch

Bolton winter barley goes through the combine at Southside Farm, Midlothian. At the moment it was taken, the storm clouds were gathering, says Anthony Kinch.

Share your harvest photos

If you take a picture you’re particularly proud of this harvest, enter it to our Harvest Photo Competition 2022 and it could appear in FW.

We’ll be running a selection of the shots that we like in the magazine and online. The winning image will feature as the front cover image of the magazine on Friday 16 September.

Submitting pictures is quick and simple. See Harvest 2022 Photo Competition for details.

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